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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 47 | Thursday March 31, 2011
InDEX 2 · Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 13 · Crossword 16 · Sports
On a roll: Rubber tells the
story of a wheel that kills.
PAGE 7
Championship hopes: USC advances to
the WNIT title game with a win over
Illinois State. PAGE 16
Emily Tat | Daily Trojan
Good deeds
Students created board games for Comunidad Cesar Chavez L.A. Family housing in Boyle Heights yesterday.
USC Helenes hosted its biannual event, “Service in the Park,” in Alumni Park on Wednesday from 12 p.m. to
4 p.m. Other events included making sandwiches for the homeless and blankets for hospitalized children.
By lauren march
Daily Trojan
Trojan Grounds has reversed its
decision to decrease its hours of
operation, following heavy student
protest. The convenience store and
coffee shop will return to its 24-
hour schedule Monday.
TroGro announced last week it
would begin closing from 2 a.m. to
6 a.m., a decision that drew much
anger and disappointment from
the student body.
Kris Klinger, director of USC
Hospitality, said the decision to re-store
the original hours came af-ter
he received hundreds of emails
from students, who brought up
safety concerns and other issues.
“Some of the emails we received
were powerful and moving, and
made good arguments,” Klinger
said. “Some of the safety concerns
that the students mentioned were
extremely valid. If they wanted a
snack between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.,
they would have to go off campus,
and it’s not as safe as it is on cam-pus.”
Klinger explained the previous
decision to close TroGro between
2 a.m. and 6 a.m. was due in part
to a low level of student traffic
during those hours as well as a
fiscal responsibility to allocate the
university resources to areas of
need.
After seeing the reaction from
students, however, USC Hospitality
realized the best decision for the
university would be to have TroGro
open 24/7 this semester and reallo-cate
the resources to make it pos-sible.
“USC students are very
intelligent and well spoken, and
they know how to get a message
across without making us feel
pressured,” Klinger said. “This
decision has a lot to do with the
students. We want to hear what
TroGro to return to
24-hour operations
The Director of Hospitality said
the university received many
emails from upset students.
| see trogro, page 3 |
By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
Undergraduate Student
Government President Chris Cheng
ends every meeting in his office the
same way: he plucks magnetic darts
off a dartboard calendar and offers
his guest the first throw.
He’s just as gracious about win-ning
as he is about losing, but he
usually has pretty good aim.
It’s easy to see why Cheng
succeeded at strengthening USG’s
relationship with the university
administration.
“Relationships and collaboration
are beyond essential, because you
can’t accomplish your goals without
them,” Cheng said. “We’ve worked
to make sure the people we’ve hired
[in USG] communicate well, but also
worked to maintain relationships
with administrators, even if it’s just
grabbing lunch.”
USG Vice President Nehi
Ogbevoen takes a similar approach.
Although he runs senate meetings
efficiently, he almost always cracks a
joke by way of greeting.
Cheng and Ogbevoen credit some
of USG’s accomplishments to the
unique opportunity to work with
new university leadership, especial-ly
President C. L. Max Nikias and
Provost Elizabeth Garrett.
“Both the provost and the
president have been more than en-gaging
with us,” Cheng said. “They
want a strong relationship with the
students and that begins with us.”
Cheng said without Garrett’s
enthusiasm and openness,
his administration’s biggest
accomplishment — extending
Thanksgiving break, would not have
Cheng, Ogbevoen connected with students
USG President Chris Cheng
said the administration was
enthusiastic about USG’s goals.
| see usg, page 3 |
Courtesy of Mikey Geragos
All smiles · Chris Cheng (right), USG president, and Nehi Ogbevoen, USG
vice president, said they enjoyed working with university administrators.
By Jacqueline Kurth
Daily Trojan
USC hopes participation in a
new survey program will help the
university improve the student ex-perience.
The university is in its fi-nal
stages of joining the Student
Experience in the Research
University Consortium, which
will allow USC to partake in a
multi-university survey USC offi-cials
hope will help them improve
the university.
“We have been committed to
improving the quality of under-graduate
education for over 10
years now, and we have done a
good job, but we are not satisfied,”
said Mark Pavelchak, USC’s aca-demic
information officer.
Starting out as a survey for only
University of California schools,
the Student Experience in the
Research University survey has
now come to include 17 top uni-versities,
allowing USC to see
where it stands in comparison to
other research universities. USC
has been working three years to
join the consortium.
Pavelchak said being part of
the consortium will allow USC to
evaluate how it compares to other
schools.
“We have increased selectivity
and student quality to where we
can hold out against Berkeley and
UCLA,” Pavelchak said.
The survey will provide detailed
information on how students feel
about specific academic programs
and the overall USC experience.
The survey consists of a group
of core questions and an individ-ualized
section chosen from ran-dom
from a group of four topics.
“The survey asks you to look
back from where you came
from and why you came here,”
USC will participate in
multi-university survey
The survey will allow USC to
compare its research efforts
to 17 other top universities.
| see survey, page 10 |
“Some of the emails we received were powerful
and moving, and made good arguments. Some of
the safety concerns that the students mentioned
were extremely valid.”
· · ·
kris klinger
Director, USC Hospitality

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 47 | Thursday March 31, 2011
InDEX 2 · Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 13 · Crossword 16 · Sports
On a roll: Rubber tells the
story of a wheel that kills.
PAGE 7
Championship hopes: USC advances to
the WNIT title game with a win over
Illinois State. PAGE 16
Emily Tat | Daily Trojan
Good deeds
Students created board games for Comunidad Cesar Chavez L.A. Family housing in Boyle Heights yesterday.
USC Helenes hosted its biannual event, “Service in the Park,” in Alumni Park on Wednesday from 12 p.m. to
4 p.m. Other events included making sandwiches for the homeless and blankets for hospitalized children.
By lauren march
Daily Trojan
Trojan Grounds has reversed its
decision to decrease its hours of
operation, following heavy student
protest. The convenience store and
coffee shop will return to its 24-
hour schedule Monday.
TroGro announced last week it
would begin closing from 2 a.m. to
6 a.m., a decision that drew much
anger and disappointment from
the student body.
Kris Klinger, director of USC
Hospitality, said the decision to re-store
the original hours came af-ter
he received hundreds of emails
from students, who brought up
safety concerns and other issues.
“Some of the emails we received
were powerful and moving, and
made good arguments,” Klinger
said. “Some of the safety concerns
that the students mentioned were
extremely valid. If they wanted a
snack between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.,
they would have to go off campus,
and it’s not as safe as it is on cam-pus.”
Klinger explained the previous
decision to close TroGro between
2 a.m. and 6 a.m. was due in part
to a low level of student traffic
during those hours as well as a
fiscal responsibility to allocate the
university resources to areas of
need.
After seeing the reaction from
students, however, USC Hospitality
realized the best decision for the
university would be to have TroGro
open 24/7 this semester and reallo-cate
the resources to make it pos-sible.
“USC students are very
intelligent and well spoken, and
they know how to get a message
across without making us feel
pressured,” Klinger said. “This
decision has a lot to do with the
students. We want to hear what
TroGro to return to
24-hour operations
The Director of Hospitality said
the university received many
emails from upset students.
| see trogro, page 3 |
By rachel bracker
Daily Trojan
Undergraduate Student
Government President Chris Cheng
ends every meeting in his office the
same way: he plucks magnetic darts
off a dartboard calendar and offers
his guest the first throw.
He’s just as gracious about win-ning
as he is about losing, but he
usually has pretty good aim.
It’s easy to see why Cheng
succeeded at strengthening USG’s
relationship with the university
administration.
“Relationships and collaboration
are beyond essential, because you
can’t accomplish your goals without
them,” Cheng said. “We’ve worked
to make sure the people we’ve hired
[in USG] communicate well, but also
worked to maintain relationships
with administrators, even if it’s just
grabbing lunch.”
USG Vice President Nehi
Ogbevoen takes a similar approach.
Although he runs senate meetings
efficiently, he almost always cracks a
joke by way of greeting.
Cheng and Ogbevoen credit some
of USG’s accomplishments to the
unique opportunity to work with
new university leadership, especial-ly
President C. L. Max Nikias and
Provost Elizabeth Garrett.
“Both the provost and the
president have been more than en-gaging
with us,” Cheng said. “They
want a strong relationship with the
students and that begins with us.”
Cheng said without Garrett’s
enthusiasm and openness,
his administration’s biggest
accomplishment — extending
Thanksgiving break, would not have
Cheng, Ogbevoen connected with students
USG President Chris Cheng
said the administration was
enthusiastic about USG’s goals.
| see usg, page 3 |
Courtesy of Mikey Geragos
All smiles · Chris Cheng (right), USG president, and Nehi Ogbevoen, USG
vice president, said they enjoyed working with university administrators.
By Jacqueline Kurth
Daily Trojan
USC hopes participation in a
new survey program will help the
university improve the student ex-perience.
The university is in its fi-nal
stages of joining the Student
Experience in the Research
University Consortium, which
will allow USC to partake in a
multi-university survey USC offi-cials
hope will help them improve
the university.
“We have been committed to
improving the quality of under-graduate
education for over 10
years now, and we have done a
good job, but we are not satisfied,”
said Mark Pavelchak, USC’s aca-demic
information officer.
Starting out as a survey for only
University of California schools,
the Student Experience in the
Research University survey has
now come to include 17 top uni-versities,
allowing USC to see
where it stands in comparison to
other research universities. USC
has been working three years to
join the consortium.
Pavelchak said being part of
the consortium will allow USC to
evaluate how it compares to other
schools.
“We have increased selectivity
and student quality to where we
can hold out against Berkeley and
UCLA,” Pavelchak said.
The survey will provide detailed
information on how students feel
about specific academic programs
and the overall USC experience.
The survey consists of a group
of core questions and an individ-ualized
section chosen from ran-dom
from a group of four topics.
“The survey asks you to look
back from where you came
from and why you came here,”
USC will participate in
multi-university survey
The survey will allow USC to
compare its research efforts
to 17 other top universities.
| see survey, page 10 |
“Some of the emails we received were powerful
and moving, and made good arguments. Some of
the safety concerns that the students mentioned
were extremely valid.”
· · ·
kris klinger
Director, USC Hospitality